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Honickman Charitable Fund at a glance

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Honickman Charitable Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$14MArts & Culture$771kHealth$152kPhilanthropy$115kFood & Nutrition$108kInternational$75kAnimals$26kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,081
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$11,081
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $250 → 7%ECUMENICAL LAY COUNCIL OF NORTHPORT: $500 → 7%ANN'S HEART: $250 → 6%WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $250 → 7%HONOR FLIGHT INC: $250 → 7%MID-ISLAND Y JCC: $250 → 6%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $500 → 7%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $250 → 9%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%HER VILLAGE INC: $250 → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $500 → 17%FACE TO FACE: $250 → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 9 repeat orgs$433k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
127

Total granted

$15M
$422k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +164%
  • KC
    KIMMEL CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $723k · revenue +75%
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2018–2020 · $45k · revenue +372%

Funded once

  • MM
    MANNA METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COVID 19 BETTER FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • HO
    HUB OF HOPE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
8
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Marsha and Richard Rothman Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 139 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
55/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $14,286,344 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY+9 more: $52,331 · EducationKIMMEL CENTER INC: $723,060 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $47,500 · Arts & CultureMANNA METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $100,000 · OtherJEFFERSON COVID 19 BETTER FUND: $50,000 · OtherHUB OF HOPE: $50,000 · OtherMAGEE REHABILITATION: $25,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+95 more: $43,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $83,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $45,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,250 · PhilanthropyWOMENS INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY HEALTH: $25,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Health+9 more: $5,500 · HealthBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc: $10,000 · Religion
Education$14,338,675Arts & Culture$770,560Other$318,500Philanthropy$159,750Health$68,000International$25,000Religion$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $14,286,344 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $723,060 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $83,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $11,081 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPLIFT SOLUTIONS INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE): $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marsha and Richard Rothman Family Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStep Denver: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-ISLAND Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALL PRIMROSE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ENID AND NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…Connelly FoundationChubb Charitable Foun…Enterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…Jewish Communal FundGe Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Honickman Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Honickman Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • The Ministry of Caring Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Homeless Emergency Project Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Honickman Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Honickman Charitable Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 139 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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